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America Has a Distorted View of the World
Saint Louis Catholic - Jul 8, 2017 at 11:55 am Says the guy whose advisors host drug-fueled sodomitical orgies on Vatican property with no rebuke from the boss, too busy trying to destroy the Church he is supposed to protect....
ASK FATHER: Corruption, sodomy, drugs, infidelity… How can we trust anything from Rome? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jul 8, 2017 at 11:40 am From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
Father, since converting through RCIA and beginning work within my parish, I read your blog twice a day for insights into the struggles within the Church...
Tradition is for the Young (Part 8): Dom Alcuin on Summorum Pontificum’s 10th Anniversary
New Liturgical Movement - Jul 8, 2017 at 11:00 am The Catholic Herald published yesterday a great essay by Dom Alcuin Reid, with the very well-chosen second headline “On the 10th anniversary of Summorum Pontificum, we can safely...
Think like an editor: What happens if Trump's own plane takes Charlie Gard to Vatican?
GetReligion - Jul 8, 2017 at 10:00 am The Charlie Gard story rolls on, of course, now super-charged by those magic words that inspire headlines -- "Donald Trump" and "Pope Francis."
It's interesting (and to me a bit...
Congregation for Divine Worship’s new document on valid bread and wine for the Eucharist
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jul 8, 2017 at 9:58 am The sacraments have both matter (the physical stuff) and form (the words pronounced). In the case of the Eucharist the matter is twofold: bread and wine. The bread must be from...
Pope’s message to Philippine bishops’ plenary assembly
News.va - Jul 8, 2017 at 9:46 am Pope Francis has expressed his “prayerful solidarity” with the Catholic bishops of the Philippines as they began their plenary assembly in the capital Manila on Saturday, CBCP...
Saint Elizabeth of Portugal, Queen, Widow
Regina Magazine - Jul 8, 2017 at 9:29 am July 8 Today is the feast day of Saint Elizabeth of Portugal. Ora pro nobis. Saint Elizabeth (Isabel) was named after her great-aunt, the great Elizabeth of Hungary, but is known...
Pope Francis asks us to accompany Christians who have distanced themselves from the faith
CatholicMom.com - Jul 8, 2017 at 9:00 am
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The Supreme Pontiff, in this month’s The Pope Video from the Pope’s Worldwide...
Pope to beatify Colombian martyrs during visit
Franciscan Media - Jul 8, 2017 at 8:43 am VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis will beatify a priest and a bishop martyred in Colombia when he visits the country in September, a Vatican spokesman said.
In an email to...
Save the Date in Philadelphia: Summorum Pontificum Anniversary Mass, Sept. 14
New Liturgical Movement - Jul 8, 2017 at 8:02 am On September 14th, the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, His Excellency Joseph Perry, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, will celebrate a Solemn High Pontifical Mass in the...
How the poetic imagery of Lady Wisdom can help us see Christ better
Aleteia - Jul 8, 2017 at 7:00 am "Take my yoke upon you" from the Gospels is linked to a similar passage in Sirach.Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find...
Vatican calls on Bishops to prevent Eucharistic abuse in their dioceses
Catholic News Agency - General - Jul 8, 2017 at 6:51 am Vatican City, Jul 8, 2017 / 05:51 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In a new letter to bishops, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments denounced abuses...
Letter to Bishops on the bread and wine for the Eucharist
News.va - Jul 8, 2017 at 6:33 am (Vatican Radio) At the request of Pope Francis, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments is writing to Diocesan Bishops to remind them that it...
Pope to maintenance staff: We are all sinners, but Jesus heals us
Catholic News Agency - General - Jul 8, 2017 at 5:00 am Vatican City, Jul 8, 2017 / 04:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Friday Pope Francis said that just like the biblical tax collectors, despite our sinfulness, Jesus seeks us out to be...
Daily Gospel Reflection for July 8, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Jul 8, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Matthew 9:14-17
Through the Sacraments, particularly Reconciliation and the Eucharist, we are being changed by Christ. He is shaping our hearts and minds, helping...
Evangelization in our time will only take place as the result of contagious joy.
Aleteia - Jul 8, 2017 at 3:00 am Pope Francis
Well, *my* Christmas shopping for the women in my life is finished
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jul 8, 2017 at 2:56 amTexas Cops Tasered a Handcuffed Kid to Death–on his Testicles
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jul 8, 2017 at 2:50 am …and cannot be charged. If you are one of those Christians who spent years and years defending torture, you own this. You thought it would all stay overseas and only be inflicted...
How to Evangelize the “Nones”
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jul 8, 2017 at 2:46 am Bishop Robert Barron on the challenge of evangelization in the postmodern world. After noting the challenges (scientism, the culture of “meh”, and the culture of self-...
ASK FATHER: Can an Eastern Catholic priest confirm a Latin Catholic
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jul 8, 2017 at 12:01 am From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
Is it licit for a child who has received the sacraments of baptism and first communion in the Western Rite to receive the sacrament of confirmation from...
